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A—2 %% 31 STATES VOTE ONAAA PAYMENT Wheat Farmers Ballot. Wallace Denies Inciting March on D. C. The A. A. A. wheat program re- ceived a ballot box test in 37 States today soon after Secretary Wallace | made a categorical denial that he spon- sored in any way the recent farmers’ march to Washington demanding A. A. A. continuation. In 1,763 counties, the men who sup- ply the grain for the Natidn began at 9 am. to vote on the question: “Are you in favor of a wheat-pro- duction ‘adjustment program to follow the present one, which expires with the 1935 crop year?” Wallace's defense was contained in a letter to Senator Hastings, Repub- lican, of Delaware, who had demanded an investigation of the farmers’ dem- onstration to determine what. if any part, the A. A. A. played in bringing | the 4,500 soil tillers here. Neutral Warnings Cited. ‘The secretary transmitted to Hast- ings a sheaf of letters and telegrams between the farmers and the A. A. A, in many of which Chester Davis, ad- justment administration head, admon- Jshed his field agents to remain strictly neutral in the planning of the | march To the sixth of 17 questions asked of Wallace by Hastings, the Secre- tary replied: “All our information shows that the farmers' meeting in Washington was sponsored and financed by the farmers themselves and their neigh- bors. “I do not regard it as the depart- ment's function to tell the farmers whether they should or should not visit the Capital. “For that reason, no census has been made or will be made to de- termine what or how many officials in the Department of Agriculture approved or disapprove of what the farmers did.” Quizzed on Proper Course. Hastings’ last question was: “Do you agree that it is a proper course to pursue to encourage groups of people interested in legislation to appear in Washington where Congress is considering legislation affecting them and have them greeted by the President of the United States?” Wallace answered “If you refer to encouragement of such groups by executive departments of the Government, I agree that it is not a proper course. “If you refer to encouragement by others, then I wish to point out that for many years groups of kinds have been appearing in Wash- ington with a view to influencing leg- islation. Surely, the farmers have that same right “As for the propriety of the Presi- dent’s greeting to the farmers, my personal view is that I see no reason why he should not receive a group which had come to express its appre- ciation of his efforts to help them at- tain economic justice.” B TIMBER KING’S SON KIDNAPED IN WEST; HELD FOR $200,000 (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) one of the largest of its kind in the | Nation, if not in the world. When George's grandfather died the family's vast timber and other holdings were | estimated at $1,000.000,000. Friends said that although George | 4s heir to one of the Northwest's big- | gest timber baronies, he has been yeared like a normal child. All yes- terday afternoon and last night there was a constant procession of auto-| mobiles to the home, bearing friends | offering sympathy and aid. And all afternoon and night the home was deluged by telephone calls with sim- lar offers. ‘The Weyerhaeuser family came ‘West from St. Paul in 1914 and has been active in development of the timber and lumber industry since the | start of the century. Its holdings have been estimated at a billion ollars. Another son of the late founder ©f the dynasty, Frederick K. Weyer- haeuser, lives in St. Paul. In addition to George and Anne, there are two other children, Philip, 10, &nd Elizabeth, 2 The missing child has dark eyes, dark curly hair and was clad in long trousers, a sweat shirt and tennis shoes at the time of his disappearance. | U. 8. AID IN SEARCH. Bpecial Agents Concentrated at Ta- coma in Reported Kidnaping. The Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Investigation, nemesis of kidnapers, has swung into actjon at Tacoma, Wash., to investigate the kid- maping of 9-year-old George Weyer- ‘haeuser, son of a wealthy lumberman, reported held for $200,000 ransom. Special agents trained in the tech- nique of extortion and ransom cases have been concentrated at Tacoma, it 'was said today by J. Edgar Hoover, di- rector of the bureau. He refused to discuss details of the case. Hoover would go no farther than to confirm reports that his agents had been ordered to make an investigation. He regretted publicity had been given the case at Tacoma, on the ground the investigation might be hampered. There have been only two other kidnaping cases in the bureau’s rec- ords in which $200,000 ransom was demanded—and both have been solved. They are the Urschel and Bremer kid- napings. The Harvey Bailey-“Ma- chine Gun” Kelly gang which engi- neered the abduction of Charles F. Urschell is now behind prison bars, while all but one major member of the Karpis-Barker gang which kidnaped Edward F. Bremer have been cap- tured. Alvin Karpis, No. 1 on the bureau’s list of wanted public enemies, is the sole key member of the Karpis-Barker gang at large. It is likely, therefore, that the bureau may consider Karpis as a possible ringleader in the Tacoma “snatch.” S MRS, THOMAS E. JARRELL | IS RE-ELECTED TO OFFICE By the Associated Press. GREENSBURG, Pa., May 25.—The Women'’s Missionary Society of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States closed its annual convention today after re- ®lecting five of its six national officers. Mrs. M. Babo of Dayton, Ohio, was named corresponding secretary, the only new officer. Officers re-elected include Mrs. F. ‘William Leich of St. Louis, president; Mrs. D. E. Remsberg, Richmond, Va., recording secretary, and Mrs. Thomas E. Jarrell, Washingf D. C, treas- urer. various | What’s What Behind News In Capital Senate Bonus Debate Hits New Low for Clear Thinking. BY PAUL MALLON. Senate debate on the bonus | was about up to the level of | the top of the period at the end of this sentence. | For instance, a leading Re- publican inflationist made the best | bonus defense speech. His argument ran this way: There is already plenty | | of money outstanding, but no one can | | get it, because it is in the banks. | Therefore, Congress should pass the | bonus and put 2,000,000,000 more in | circulation. (This 2,000,000,000 would | wind up in the banks within 30 days, | |thus doubling the excess reserves situation which the speaker deplored.) | The Star speech on the other | side was made by an anti-bonusite who pleaded long and loudly that the President, not Congress, had the responsibility for money policy and that therefore Congress should never interfere with the President on money matters. Apparently he forgot the section of the Constitu- tion which says that Congress has the responsibility for fiting the value of money, etc. | ‘The whole discussion was further | proof that congressional debate is not | what it pretends to be. The speakers | first decide which side they are going to be on and then seek pretexts to justify themselves and their political \clients. They are not disinterested legislators, but attorneys for the prosecution or defense. | | | It is no secret that Government press agents try to control news. but they are usually smart enough not to get caught. The publicity department of Mr. Hopkins’ F. E. R. A. was nabbed the other day, red-faced and red- handed. A newsman wandered into the office of a division head, seeking some sta- tistics about the great work the Hopkins spending program is supposed to do. While he was getting the in- formation, a telephone rang. The voice at the other end of the wire could be heard all over the room. It was the press agent, saying to the | division head, in effect: “I understand |you have a newspaper man in your !room and you are giving him infor- | mation. You are not supposed to do that. All information must come through me.” Apparently the fault is not entirely that of the publicity system, but of | some of the men in it who have come to believe they are bottlers of infor-| mation instead of purveyors of it. | Probes Prove Duds. ‘Two thorough private investigations of son James Roosevelt's insurance activities have been made lately. The second has just been completed by a archer who spent a month at it. oth failed to develop anything sig- ificant, or anything worth pub- lishing. Insiders understand that son James will not entirely disassociate himself | | from his insurance business while he is instituting a new system of ac- counts at Hyde Park. He will merely be less active. No one noticed State Secretary Hull's znswer to Yankee Trader Peek (except possibly Mr. Peek). It was hidden down at the bottom of Pres- | ident Roosevelt'’s radio message on! maritime day: “Our reciprocity treaties are already bearing fruit and similar treaties which are expected to be equally beneficial are in the process of being ated. I wish vou every success | and stand ready to help at every opportunity.” The message was sent to Hull to| read over the radio. It effectively implied an indorsement of the Huil method (as opposed to the Peek | method) of meeting the foreign trade situation. Dawes and Boom. It was erroneously stated here that Gen. Dawes founded his expectation of & June-July boom on the experience in the recovery of 1921. His basis were the depressions commencing in September, 1873, and May, 1893, to which the same objections largely apply. His argument is: . “The mass movement in demand for heavy, durable goods, when the earned income of the mass passes the particular point in a depression where consumption of necessities is covered, | is always sudden and therefore unex- | ted. Five years and seven months after the initial stock crashes of both | the two former panics, the sudden rise in demand for heavy, durable goods took the trade unawa: I believe it will do so this time. | No one will doubt the general’s basic reasoning that a durable goods boom will follow when the income,of the people passes their ezpenditure requirements for me- cessities of life. They will then spend this excess for tmproving their condition of life. Industry will expand to provide them with better homes and better facilities in substantial quantities. But a lot of people will question the | Dawes time element. They will doubt whether the income of the people will reach the necessary point exactly five years and seven months after the panic this time. The reasons are both political and,economic, as previously outlined. You can tell by the end of July | who is right. 4 Business Rally Sedate. The N. R. A. rally here was some- what sad. About 1,700 small manu- facturers and retailers gathered here for it. Most of them came from New York and New England, and most of these are clothing makers. They ap- more awed than enthusiastic. They sat sedately in their chairs and listened with set faces to the g whom they applauded mildly. This, in comparison to the shirt-sleeved farmers, whose restless excitement permeated the same hall earlier and whose whoops made the farmer march rally sound like a rodeo. The business men had an organ for music. It played march of “The | High School Cadetsy’ (Coprright. 3] | risen 43 per cent and that | operating and clerical employes in the THE EVEN N.R. A EXTENSION STRATEGY MAPPED House Supporters Hope to Jam Bill Through Next Week. (Continued From First Page.) until April would be to invite “catas- trophe.” He disagreed with Herbert Hoover, who attacked yesterday what he called N. R. A. “Fascist” methods. Says Small Business Aided. Johnson argued that the N. R. A. had arrested “the slaughter of small economic units.” And as for labor, he contended N. R. A. had done more for it “than has been done by all the strikes and by all the political parties and by all the actions since the labor movement started.” He conceded, however, that the “greatest danger of a racket” was in- volved in the question of code assess- ments. Asked by mack, Democrat, Representative McCor- of Massachusetts whether N. R. A. should be under one man or a board, Johnson replied there might well be a board to handle decisions of policy, but that “execu- | tion must be in the hands of one man.” “What was done.” he said, that a board tried to execute poli That has never been successful.” | Johnson said one difficulty with Blue Eagle enforcement had been | that “two conflicting agencies”—the | Federal Trade Commission and the | Justice Department — had been| charged with the job. “The N. R. A. might die June 16, | but the issue it raised will not die,” he continued. Predicts Issue in 1936, “It might be that its crucifixion and its death would bring its resur- rection, but I would not advocate that | course,” Should it be allowed to die, he said, it undoubtedly would be a “principal issue in the 1936 campaign | “I, for one,” he added, “would not | like to go home and face the hornet’s | nest with the blood of its destruction on my hands.” When he left—witn the thanks of the committee—Charles Fahey, a member of the Petroleum Board, was the first of a long succession of wit- nesses as the committee drove to- ward conclusion of its hearings. Fahey said there should be no ques- tion of the right to enforce production control in the petroleum industry, and urged a two-year extension. He said that under the petroleum code, em- ployment in the oil industry had among pipe line industry, DELEGATES TO REPORT ON CHURCH CONFERENCE Universalist National Memorial Young People Will Discuss 28 per cent. Germantown Meeting. “The Faithful Remainder” is the | sermon topic of Dr. Frederic W. Per- kins for tomorrow at 11 o'clock at the Universalist National Memorial Church. At 6 o'clock the Sunday eve- ning group will meet for supper in the Romaine-Van Schaick room. Follow- ing the supper there will be a report of the discussions at the recent Jo- seph Priestly Conference of Unitarial Young People at Germantown, Pa, presented by some of the Washing- ton delegates. A Ladies’ Aid Association luncheon | will be held Tuesday in Perkins Hall, followed by a business meeting at 130 in the Elizabeth Weston room. ‘The following committees for the Universalist general convention, to be held in Washington in October, were appointed by the Committee on Ar- rangements at its meeting this week: Registration and information, Walter E. Claflin, chairman; M. R. Vollmer, Cornelius Ferris; hospitality, Mrs Frank W. Ballou and Miss Alice C Atwood: banquets and luncheons, Mrs. | William H. McGlauflin. Elwood J. ‘Way, chairman of the General Com- mittee, announced other committees will be appointed in the near future. MISSION MEETING SET Society Monday ‘and Tuesday. The Washington District Woman's Missionary Society will meet Monday and Tuesday in the Washington Street M. E. Church South, Alexan- dria, Va. The first session will be at 8 o’clock ‘Mondays evening. The session Tues- day will begin at 9:30 am. Those at- tending are requested to bring a box lunch. Tea and coffee will be served. INGALLS SEEKING 15-HOUR RECORD IN CROSSING U. S. (Continued From First Page.) Woman's to Convene perky beret. She was supplied with her usual nourishment—hot coffee, | orange juice, buttered bread and nuts. Miss Ingalls, who was forced down by a duststorm near Alamosa, Colo. on her first attempts last month, sai she probably would follow the mid- continent route, flying over Colorado Springs, Omaha, Chicago, Cleveland and on to Floyd Bennett Field, at New | York. “I hope to do it in less than 15 hours,” she said. She encountered a little difficulty getting her heavily loaded ship off | the ground before reaching the end of the runway. Fog was just begin- ning to roll in from the coast, and her plane disappeared for a moment in a fog bank. Reappearing from the northwest, however, she gained alti- tude quickly, circled the field and headed east. A moment later she dis- appeared from sight. Miss Ingalls’ plane is capable of 225 | miles top speed, 205 cruising speed and sustained flight over a 4,000-mile route with a capacity load of 650 gal- | lons of gasoline. A new type radio and automatic pilot device, performing triple service as a pilot, weather report receiver and compass, makes Miss Ingalls’ vowerful plane one of the best equipped ships in the air. In recess. House. In recess. Medical authorities came to support of citizens in the war on dumps by declaring them to be a definite menace to public health. Picture shows dump at Memorial Bridge, where all kinds of junk and debris is held until burned or sold. In the background smoke can be seen rising from NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 25 1935. Arlington Dumps Held Breeders of Disease & smouldering junk fire. Smoke GOVERNOR DELAYS RULING ON MGEE lliness Interferes With Kid- nap Case Execution Decision. By the Assoclated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 25— Gov. Guy B. Park today delayed his decision on whether Walter McGee, condemned kidnaper of Miss Mary MCcElroy, must die next Priday. The Governor suffered an attack of indigestion overnight and remained in | | is blown across Arlington National Cemetery and Memorial Bridge Highway, much to the objection of resi- dents and civic associations, who are demanding that the nuisance be abolished. ~—Star Staff Photo. ARMS LIMITATION FATHIS SCORNED Mussolini Advises Deputies Not to Believe in End of i Deadly Weapons. | By the Associated Press. ROME, May 25 —Premier Mussolini told the Chamber of Deputies today it was useless to believe in the limitation of armaments or the elimination of certain deadly weapons, such as gas or heavy arms, After receiving an ovation lasting many minutes when he rose to make an important address on foreign af- fairs, Mussolini said between Germany and Italy “there is only one problem— that of Austria.” Recriminations Useless. | He referred to Germany's repudia- | tion of section 5 of the Versailles treaty (containing the military clauses), and said Germany was dis- posed in 1934 to accept much less in armaments than what she finally achieved, but “it is useless to induige in recriminations.” 11 Duce said his foreign policy was | a policy of realism. He began with a review of the recent accord with France for colonial concessions, but explained he could not make a com- plete speech when some questions are still in’ the air. Discussing the Stresa conference, he said the solidarity shown there by France, Great Britain and Italy was more than ever necessary for the fu- ture of the European continent., Danubian Parley Put Off. He announced the Danubian con- ference to which nine powers had been invited here, scheduled in June, would not be held before July because of the necessity of adequate diplomatic preparation. Roosevelts See Son Row Today 'Franklin, Jr., on Har- vard Crew to Race at Naval Academy. President and Mrs. Roosevelt to- | day were to go to Annapolis to watch the Harvard-Naval Academy-Pennsyl- vania boat races on the Severn River, their principal interest being in the race in which their son Pranklin, jr., will row for Harvard. Until two weeks ago Franklin was | stroking the Harvard varsity crew, but the junior varsity, which, ac- | cording to the coaches, was showing | more speed, has been substituted for | the varsity crew and the latter re- }ducnd to the junior varsity class. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt were to motor to the Naval Academy | grounds, where they will be received | by Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, | superintendent of the academy. Be- fore going out on the Severn River to witness the maces they will be luncheon guests at the home of Ad- miral and Mrs. Sellers. The Presi- dent’s yacht Sequoia has been moored at the Naval Academy wharf since last week, and it is expected the President and his party will use this rim craft to follow the races. ‘The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will have a large party with them. It will include Mr. .nd Mrs. John Boet- | tiger, and the latter's two children, Sistie and Buzzie; Miss Ethel Dupont, Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- | thau and Mrs. Morgenthau; Miss Grace Tully of the President’s secre- tarial staff; Mrs. Malvina Scheider, Mrs. . Roosevelt’s secretary; Henry Osthagen, Capt. Wilson Brown, White House naval aide, and Mrs. Brown; Harry L. Hopkins, emergency relief administrator, nnd Mrs. Hopkins, and Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, Undersecre- tary of Agriculture, and Mrs. Tug- well; Mrs. Donner Roosevelt, the first wife of Elliott Roosevelt; Mrs. Isa- bella Greenway, Representative from Arizona, and her son, Jack; James Roosevelt, eldest of the Roosevelt boys, and his wife. President and Mrs. Roosevelt will motor back to Washington, reaching the White House before the evening meal. The President will spend tomorrow eruising on the Potomac. During the forenoon he will go to the Navy Yard here and go aboard the launch used by Mrs. Hoover during the Hoover ad- ministration, which will carry him down the Potomac River to some point arranged for meeting the Se- quoia. The President and a party will go aboard the Sequoia to con- tinue the cruise, returning to the White House some time tomorrow night. et et M Roceevel: lomeanros all the way to New London, Conn., to be on hand to see Pranklin. who was rowing in the Harvard freshman crew, compete the Yale freshmen crew. o | Mother of Quintuplets Sobs When Barred From Nursery Nurse Halts Mrs. Dionne When She Attempts to Show Her Famous Babies to By the Associated Press CALLANDER, Ontario, May 25.—A brusque drama at the door of the Dionne nursery, it was disclosed last tuplets’ mother and those who guard the little sisters’ health. ‘The door of the babies’ nursery lit- erally was slammed in Mrs. Elzire Dionne’s face. “Don’t you come up those steps. were the words, in brisk French, that met and turned her away. The incident took place Sunday. but the wounds made then are unhealed. | | Against Middies Its principals were two women—the | mild-mannered, unassertive Mrs. | Dionne. the only woman to have borne | quintuplets who lived: and Nurse Louise de Kiriline, efficient, energetic and determined. Nurse Known for Zeal. In this north country the | De Kiriline is heard almost as fre- | quently as Dionne. She has nursed | the five babies from the early days, and there is none who will not extend to her great credit for her unflagging industry, her talent and her zeal. ‘They will tell you, the people here, that Louise De Kiriline, Red Cross nurse, has mushed with huskies, fought blinding blizzards on snow- shoes, and defied 50-below-zero | weather in countless errands of mercy. Once, they say. she struggled over the lonely wastes to the isolated cabin of one stricken suddenly with great pain, and that in the emergency she was there called upon to meet, | she performed an operation for the removal of an appendix. There had been jollity and happi- ness Sunday at the plain frame farm night, has opened new wounds in the | emotional conflict between the quin- | | name Relatives. 1 sery. as Mrs. Dionne and her husband entertained cousins who had traveled 350 miles from Montreal to visit them Dinner over. the visitors asked if they might see the quintuplets. Of course they might. Mrs. Dionne is very proud of her babies They strolled across the road, and passed through the guarded nursery gate. The inflexible rule is “posi- tively no visitors.” They walked the little way to the | nursery steps. The babies, each in | her perambulator, were on the porch, catching the warmth of the afternoon sun. All were asleep. “Don’t,” Orders Nurse. Nurse de Kiriline appeared on the porch and stood at the head of the short flight of stairs that led down | to the walk along which Mrs. Dionne and her cousins had approached Mrs. Dionne smiled greetings and started forward. Nurse de Kiriline spoke: “Don’t you come up those steps.” The mother of the world's most fa- mous babies stopped. Some one protested: “But we only meant to take a little peek. See, they are asleep, and the wind is blowing away from them. Surely there can be no harm; and we have come so far.” “Don’t come up those steps,” said Nurse de Kiriline. And then, in the room where she had borne her babies, Elzire Dionne sobbed disconsolately until long after the Sabbath sun had gone. Nurse de Kiriline’s action was ex- plained as due to the presence of companions with Mrs. Dionne, for the mother of the quintuplets has no bars against her at the hospital so far as the official guardians of the in- fants are concerned. house, across the road from the nur- | GRADUATING CLASS TO ATTEND SERVICE | Southeastern University Group to Hear Sermon by Dr. Blackwelder. | 'The graduating class of the South- eastern University of the Washington | Y. M. C. A. will attend the 11 o'clock | the Reformation tomorrow for their baccalaureate sermon by the pastor, Dr. Oscar F. Blackwelder. speak on “Life at Its Best” The vested choir will sing and Carrol Robb will render a bass solo. Dr. Blackwelder will conclude his present series of evening sermons on “The Contribution of Religion to Health,” using as his theme “Can Faith Healing Be Proved?” Special music by the vested choir. Meta Richardson will render a soprano solo. Dr. L. M. Zimmerman will speak at the Young People’'s meeting at 6:45 oclock on “How Shall We Think of the Future Life?” ARROWHEAD ART LOST Weapons of Long Ago. AKRON, N. Y., May 25 (#)—The Seneca Indians are looking for some- body who can teach them how to chip arrowheads. In a revival of the ancient tribal arts and crafts they have discovered lost art—not even the elders of the tribe can show how it was done. In the white man’s books they have read how it is supposed to have been done, but they have ruined much flint with- out turning out a good arrowhead. Dr. Arthur C. Parker, Rochester on the New York Indians, said chip- ping arrowheads is a lost art which can be regained only with long prac- tice. SMITHSONIAN OFFICIAL’S Rites for Stanley H. Abbot Will Be Held Today at Wilton, New Hampshire. Stanley H. Abbot, former member of the New Hampshire State Legislature and brother of Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Smi Institu service at the Lutheran Church of | He will | Seneca Indians Unable to Chip | that making arrowheads is their only | anthropologist, famous for his work | BROTHER DIED THURSDAY | 209 ON TRUCK CODE LIST District registration _under the trucking code reached 209 vehicles | yesterday, P. T. McDermott, chairman of the local code authority, an- nounced. At the same time, he said Thomas J. Crowell, Washington trucking op- erator, has been approved by the N. R. A. as & member of the code authority. } Postal Pay Raise Approved. | ‘The House Post Office Committee yesterday approved bills to permit the Postmaster Gengral to allow $10 a year per mile for the rural carriers, and to give village caries a $150-a- | year raise, with village substitutes’ pay boosted from 50 to 55 cents an | hour. | TRAFFIC TIPS by rhe NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL Cut Out Cutting In. There is the “Willie-the-Weaver” | type of driver, too. He is the bird who is always twisting in and out of the traffic line in his mad Jush to get ahead, utterly disregarding the laws of safety. courtesy and common sense. | This gent is always in & terrible hurry, but if you pin him down he doesn’t know just why. The regular flow of traffic is much too slow for him, so he cuts around, the world like a frightened jack rabbit making a quick get-away through the sage brush. Of course, his mad race is a haz- himself an expert driver, he just takes it for granted that he will squeeze through safely with nothing more serious than perhaps a brushed fen- der or so. He doesn’t always make it, of course, and as a result, “cutting in” accidents are listed as an important cause of death and injury today. "wuuit.he-WQAver" is a dangerous driver, t you couldn’t make him beiteve 10 i & thoussnd pears, dodges and crowds in and out, for all | ardous one, but since he considers| APPRAISAL MADE OF MUSEUM WO American Association Holds Final Sessions Studying Educational Value. . Appraisal of the educational work being done by the 2,000 museums throughout the country was made at the final sessions of the American Association of Museums today in the Willard Hotel. With the educational section of the association in charge of the meeting talks were heard from a number of prominent men and women. Tells of Workers’ Education. Miss Hilda W. Smith, specialist in workers’ education, Federal Emer- gency Relief Administration, told of what is being done in that field. Dorsey W. Hyvde, jr., special assist- ant to the archivist of the National Archives, outlined the work ahead for that unit Mrs. Harriest Ahlers Houdlette. re- search associate in adult education, American Association of University | Women, told of the Nation-wide in- terest in this specialized field of edu- cation. George F. Bowerman, District libra- rian, completed the symposium. Sail Down Potomac. | At the end of the meeting the mem- bers of the museum association, to- gether with delegates to the College Art Association, boarded a steamer for a sail down the Potomac to In- dian Head and return. Modern art occupied the attention of the College Art Association in its final session this morning at the Wil- lard. Issues of modern art were dis- cussed by Artemus Packard of Dart- mouth College. The Brussels Art Congress was discussed by Alfred G. Pelikan of the Milwaukee Art In- stitute. Other speakers were James Johnson Sweeney, New York University, and Forbes Watson, editor of the Bulletin section of painting and sculpture, the Treasury Department. MITCHELL TO SEEK HOWARD U. PROBE; JOHNSON ACCUSED ___(Continued From First Page.) which described a recent convention | at Howard University. At one of | these sessions, at which Johnson presided, speakers advocated what Mitchell described as communism. “The chair did not interfere in any way,” said Mitchell. “The only man to rise in defense of the Federal Government was Kelly Miller.” Some time later, Mitchell accom- panied a Congressional subcommittee jona tour of the university. Mitchell said he attempted to warn the univer- sity that certain administrative changes must be made to rid the canfpus of its communistic leanings. Intimates Bad Leadership. After he had left, said Mitchell, Johnson spoke for 45 minutes in open | advocacy f what Johnson called “academic freedom.” “Howard University has meant, and still means, too much in the life of the Nation and the race,” said Mitchell, “in building substantial citizenship to be made to suffer in critical times like this because of bad leadership. I am convinced that there is something radically wrong at Howard University at this time. The Nation needs the contribution which Howard University is capable of making in this period of business reconstruction. “If the trouble at Howard Univer- sity is caused by administrative mis- | conduct this should be known, and | whatever changes are necessary in the personnel of the school should be forthcoming. Declares Inquiry Needed. “Because of the persistent rumors that Communism is being taught at | Howard University and because of the speech which the president made in the presence of a congressional | committee to the teachers and stu- dent body of that school on a recent occasion, which was in effect a defi | to the Congress of the United States from which the school receives large annual appropriations, it is time | for a congressional investigation. “My efforts is in the defense of | Howard University. I am absolutely | unwilling to see anything happen that will take from Howard University one penny of its support, thus injuring it in the possibility of its work. But I am firm in my desire to see some | sort of administrative correction that will put Howard University in the right light with the public.” Reached at his home where he is confined by illness, Dr. Johnson de- clined to make any statement in an- | saying he wished to consider’ the | matter fully and would issue a written statement later, in several | swer to the allégations against him, | bed- at the executive mansion. He said he might rule on the pleas or a commutation of the death sen- | tence to life imprisonment this after- |noon or tonight, but did not know | when he would act. | McGee is the leader of a kidnap | gang which abducted Miss Mary Mc- | Elroy, May 27, 1933, and held ber for $30.000 ransom. A month ago Miss McElroy ap- peared before the Governor and asked | him to commute the sentence “for my own peace of mind 5 The execution date was originally set for May 10, but after hearing Mis: | McElroy’s plea the Governor issued a stay of execution. Yesterday he an- | nounced he | cision today. recourse to the | State courts has failed. VICTIM VOICES SYMPATHY. | Miss McElroy Would Not Revenge on Prisoners. BY MARY McELROY. | (Copyright. 1 by the Associated Press) KANSAS CITY, May 25—Two years ago this coming Monday Walter McGee and three ¥ men kid- naped me and held me chained to a basement wall until $30,000 ransom was paid. | I was released after 29 hours. At no time did I expect to be returned alive. It appeared the best thing to hope for was a quick death. My greatest fear was of being tor- | tured so that I would be forced to 135)( those men for mercy for myself. | I preferred to laugh and joke with them rather than to cry. It seemed the wiser course I believed they would kill me rather than turn me loose as evidence. They knew they were committing a capital offense and that some dav I might have to testify against them Considering the tenseness of the situation, we got along very well otherwise. I learned to know them rather well, to conclude they were more desperate than bad and more cowardly than v E Force Sympathy for Men. If this had been a completely iso- lated case, I should never have prose- cuted. I would have tried to help these men get work That kidnaping was a swift, sure shock and—in spite of all the horror —more simple and easier to handle than its sequel has been Then, I was the only person in danger. Since then it has been neces- sary to consider the right of the law to enforce itself, the possibility of other persons being kidnaped, the chance that other men would plan kidnapings, and finally, the fatesof my kidnapers themselves—the men | whom T once hoped to help. Three times it has been necessary to testify against a man when the State was asking the death penalty. I acknowledge and respect the im- portance of law enforcement, but my role was that of “complaining witness" (how I hate that title) and the law was trying these men for what they had done to me One of these men, Walter McGee was sentenced to be hanged. Two others were given prison sentences One still is at large. Juries usually | give graduated sentences in kidnaping cases. Why, I don't know ‘Walter McGee's case has been tested through every appeal that can be made to the State Supreme Court He has no legal means of escaping the gallows. As the victim, I appealed | to Gov. Park to commute his sentence to life imprisonment | In behalf of ims, to say that some of T | beings and not wooden In | I consider “getting even” an un- | pleasant waste of time. I would not have gone so far as to ask the law to dismiss these cases, which I would | have preferred, had I been the on {one concerned. I do think it should | have been my right to request that the death penalty not be asked. I have been leading up to a point which I consider worthy of considera- tion. To force an unwanted revenge on a person is just as great a miscarriage of justice as to convict an innocent man or to acquit a guilty one. 1 should like | . | $250,000 for Mothers. Australia is raisng $250,000 to fight maternal mortality. ie) ——Z m o 'CROSS-WORD PUZZLE Sharpens the mind . . . enlarges your vocabulary «..and it's real fun. Section B, Page 9